{"id":347374,"date":"2018-02-08T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-russian-interference-in-brexit-referendum\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:11:38","slug":"no-russian-interference-in-brexit-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-russian-interference-in-brexit-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"No Russian interference in Brexit referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.02\/thumbnail\/5a7c736edda4c800448b45bb.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        YouTube found no evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, a British parliamentary committee inquiry into fake news has heard.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee is hearing evidence on Thursday at George Washington University as part of its inquiry. YouTube\u2019s Juniper Downs told MPs: <em>\u201c[YouTube] have conducted a thorough investigation around the Brexit referendum and found no evidence of interference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAgain, we looked at all advertisements with any connection to Russia, and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the Brexit referendum. We are happy to cooperate with any further efforts,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4o54Mv5zkPg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Russian meddling has produced no substantial results so far. In January, Twitter told MPs that its investigation had found no evidence to substantiate claims of Russian meddling in the 2016 referendum.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Facebook said in response to the inquiry that a mere $0.97 was spent by Russia\u2019s Internet Research Agency on referendum-related ads. Google, which has also been asked for input in the probe, said it had found no proof of Russian interference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was forced to concede he had <em>\u201cseen no evidence\u201d<\/em> of Russian interference in British democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/413669-parliamentary-fake-news-evidence\/\">READ MORE:\u00a0Parliamentary fake news probe puts struggle for evidence against Russia on public display<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/418242-youtube-russia-brexit-inquiry\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube found no evidence of Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, a British parliamentary committee inquiry into fake news has heard. Britain\u2019s Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee is hearing evidence on Thursday at George Washington University as part of its inquiry. YouTube\u2019s Juniper Downs told MPs: \u201c[YouTube] have conducted a thorough investigation around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}